doug992

Homelink will pop up where you set it when the GPS connected. I set mine right outside my garage door, i also have a shortcut button for homelink. I made the mistake of setting the homelink for my second house after i started going down the road.. came back another day it popped up near the house then disappeared infront of the garage. I then went back into the settings and reset the GPS to be infront of the garage ... been perfect at both locations since

Dan Nagy

I am certain that I saw a Homelink mirror option on the 2021 configurator, but now it’s not there. Hmm.

diononiz

The problem occurs for me when I back out of my garage. It takes while for the Carplay app to load so I am left waiting in the driveway. If I am in reverse, I have to stop, put the car in Park, wait for the carplay to load then put it back in reverse then drive away. Unfortunately, I have put the an old garage door opener in the glove box and find myself using it more than the homelink.

hinckley

I've played around somewhat with the UK configurator. There, Homelink is an option and if you click on the i/information icon, there's a description of Homelink under a picture of the rearview mirror. I don't know whether that picture is just a legacy thing that just wasn't updated for the 992 configurator, or whether there are still physical buttons under the mirror for the UK and other markets. Maybe one of our members across the pond can comment?

doug992

mine does this too.. i don't mind so much because i start her up.. release the emergency brake and let her warm up in the drive way.. so by the time carplay connects and the homelink is available the car is still warming up

markchristenson

That’s what I have done in my Mini. Although I also have MyQ and can use the Apple HomeKit integration on my phone, but it still requires me to wake up the screen, swipe, click, and click again. But if I do it when I’m a block away then the door is open as I’m pulling in the driveway :-)

smiles11

Like others, I grew tired of having to put the car in park after reversing out of the garage. So now I just use the MyQ garage app. I just tap a button on my phone to open and close.

John Mclane

I use the same, a block from my home I tell Siri (push steering wheel button) to open the garage door.
You can work around the delay on having homelink available as the PCM boots by waking up the car a bit earlier. Either PCM connect or even opening the doors with the remote will do it. One minute before getting in the car suffices. This way when I'm backing up CarPlay is also running and I can tell Siri to close the garage door.

JCWLS3

Interesting on both counts. We've noticed that the Homelink transmitter on our C2S either isn't as strong as that in our Cayenne Turbo, or is pointed in a funky direction. We have an angled drive, and the car rarely activates the garage door properly when facing directly toward it. We sort of have to side-eye the 911 to get it to work, and even then, it's spotty at best.

We stopped banging out heads against the proverbial steering wheel and left a standalone transmitter in the car. You know, the kind that costs $10, works flawlessly every time from every angle, and doesn't require us to do the fake-button dance. FYI, Homelink in the 9Y0 includes ACTUAL, REAL BUTTONS next to the sunroof control in the headrest. Imagine that. It's like the 911 team lost all contact with the Cayenne folks, and chose not to find out where they went. Terrible, terrible Homelink execution.

But hey, if that's the worst of the complaints so far, we'll be happy campers.

markchristenson

I'm sure in the overall scheme of building a car like a 911, Homelink implementation is not the group with the biggest budget. However, it's odd that something used so frequently by so many people would be such a disaster, and it really would not take that much budget to do it right.

HouTexCarreraS

Three buttons on the bottom of the rear view mirror have been used by everyone forever--Porsche just figured they could save a nickel by integrating it into the PCM for programming cost only--very unwise decision and I'm surprised that they haven't reversed this on the 2021 model (I thought there was some buzz that they were going to offer it as an option--maybe it's just going to be standard now?). They must not read these forums.

Dan Nagy

Everyone would rather reach up and push a button. Everyone. This is a case of software engineers running amuck and Porsche failing to dial it back. But I think the solution above to just ask Siri to open your gate or garage door is a good one. I am curious how much time on average a 992 owner spends learning and setting up this software.

John Mclane

The homelink was super easy, barely an inconvenience.
The garage-Siri combo using MyQ wasn't difficult at all.

I considered for a short time 3D print a button and pluck it in by the empty space by the light switch. Some motorcycle garage door openers are quite small and would fit -

Dan Nagy

Day 2, car is finally home, and started the process of Homelink programming. The community gate programmed and worked. The garage door looks like it is programmed, but it doesn’t work. Deleted it out, tried again, notifies it’s programmed, doesn’t work.

I know that somebody has a trick to the rolling numbers and searching the threads. I saw it somewhere....

ryanlsmith

I have MyQ as well, and hooked up with HomeKit - and generally it works well (Apple GPS implementation is leaps and bounds ahead), but I will say that in running the iOS 14 beta I have encountered CarPlay reporting the door is open when it’s not. It wouldn’t be a huge deal except it seems to prevent me from actually opening the door.

Also, I don’t think Siri lets you open via a shortcut - or at least I couldn’t. So falling back to that isn’t really an option either.